Heliconius hecuba

11, see text Heliconius hecuba, the Hecuba longwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

It lives at altitudes ranging from 1000 to 2400 m in cloud forests in the northern Andes from Colombia to Ecuador.

[2] The butterfly is named for Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of ancient Troy.

The larvae feed on plants from the genus Granadilla.

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